SPORTS PEOPLE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL

SPORTS PEOPLE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Russell Withdraws

Published: December 21, 1988

Georgia Southern's football coach, Erk Russell, withdrew yesterday from the list of prospective successors to Vince Dooley at the University of Georgia.

At a news conference in Montgomery, Ala., where he is coaching in the Blue-Gray All-Star Football Classic, Russell, who is 62 years old, said he was not willing to undertake a four-year commitment at any college.

The Georgia search committee met with Dick Sheridan, the North Carolina State coach, earlier in the day. (AP)